Dharmendra Kumar Gupta @ Dharmendra Krantikari v. The State of Bihar through the Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, Government of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court; CR. WJC No.2678 of 2025; decided 13-07-2026; preventive detention; Bihar Crime Control Act, 2024, Section 12(2); Collector-cum-District Magistrate Gopalganj; Memo No. 1606 dated 04.08.2025; writ of certiorari; petitioner already in judicial custody in Divisional Jail Gopalganj; six-month maximum period expired; no extension; application infructuous; disposed leaving all questions open; Dharmendra Kumar Gupta @ Dharmendra Krantikari; Mukhiya election dispute; no precedent cases engaged.
What did the court decide?
Having regard to the circumstances and the submissions at the Bar, the writ application has become infructuous: the detention order under Section 12(2) of the BCC Act had already taken effect, its maximum six-month period had expired, and there was no extension; it is disposed of as having become infructuous.